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Regression of exchangeable relational arrays
Frank W. Marrs, Bailey K. Fosdick, Tyler H. McCormick
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Relational arrays represent measures of association between pairs of actors, often in varied contexts or over time. Trade flows between countries, financial transactions between individuals, contact frequencies between school children in classrooms, and dynamic protein-protein interactions are all examples of relational arrays. Elements of a relational array are often modeled as a linear function of observable covariates. Uncertainty estimates for regression coefficient estimators -- and ideally the coefficient estimators themselves -- must account for dependence between elements of the array (e.g. relations involving the same actor) and existing estimators of standard errors that recognize such relational dependence rely on estimating extremely complex, heterogeneous structure across actors. This paper develops a new class of parsimonious coefficient and standard error estimators for regressions of relational arrays. We leverage an exchangeability assumption to derive standard error estimators that pool information across actors and are substantially more accurate than existing estimators in a variety of settings. This exchangeability assumption is pervasive in network and array models in the statistics literature, but not previously considered when adjusting for dependence in a regression setting with relational data. We demonstrate improvements in inference theoretically, via a simulation study, and by analysis of a data set involving international trade.
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